File 959/1914 Pt 1 ‘Abyssinia Order-in-Council 1913. Question of trial or imprisonment of persons at Aden or Bombay.’

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This part contains correspondence and other papers relating to Articles 37 and 56 of the Abyssinia Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. 1913, which concern persons being sent for trial or imprisonment to Aden or Bombay.

It includes papers relating to the following issues:

• The question of whether or not expenses incurred by the Government of India in connection with the trial and imprisonment of persons other than of British Indian nationality at Aden and Bombay would be recoverable from Imperial revenues.
• The Government of India’s proposal that European British subjects charged with offences punishable by death under the Indian penal code should be sent to Bombay, and not Aden, for trial.
• A proposed official Guajarati translation of the Order-in-Council, and the question of whether or not the cost of this should be met by the Government of India.
• Arrangements for the trial and imprisonment at Aden of persons to whom the Order applied.
• The proposal of the Government of India that during the duration of the First World War the Consul-General at Abyssinia should be instructed to refrain from sending cases for trial at Aden.
• The detention at Aden (or Bombay) of British subjects sentenced by the Abyssinian Mixed Court, and the issue of whether or not the Government of India should meet the cost of this.
• The issue of whether or not the executions of British Somalis condemned to death by courts in Abyssinia should be carried out at Aden.
• The proposed amendment of the Abyssinia-Order-in-Council.

The correspondence is mostly between the following:

• The India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. and the Foreign Office.
• The India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. and the Government of India Foreign and Political Department.
• The Government of India Foreign and Political Department and the Political Department of the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. .
• The Foreign Office and HM Chargé d’Affaires and Acting Consul-General, Addis Ababa (Guy Henry Bullock).

This part also includes India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. internal correspondence, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. minute papers and reference papers, copies of the Abyssinia Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. 1913, and proceedings and judgements of the Court of HM Consul-General in Abyssinia.

This part includes a few folios in French.

Extent and format

1 item (436 folios)

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File 959/1914 Pt 1-2 'Abyssinia O. in C.'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/447

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English and French in Latin script

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Archival item

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Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

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Unrestricted

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IOR/L/PS/10/447/1

Former external reference(s)

P 959/1914 Pt 1

History of this record

Date(s)

10 Mar 1914-27 Jun 1929 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

HM Chargé d’Affaires to Addis Ababa

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